Nozzle for tobacco-bags.



Rm 0 9 1 8 2 0 N D E T N E T A P v No- 806,084.

NOZZLE FOR TOBACCO BAGS.

APPLICATION FILED MATH, 1905.

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MAYER GRAN'AT, orv SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. a

NOZZLE FOR TOBACCO-BAGS.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MAYER GRANAT, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Nozzles for Tobacco-Bags, of which the following is a, specification.

My invention pertains to normallyclosed discharge-nozzles for tobacco-bags and the like; and it consists in the-peculiar and advantageous nozzle hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecificatiomFigure, 1 is a longitudinal section illustrating my novel nozzle properly arranged relative to a tobacco-bag Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the nozzle as it appears when removed from the bag. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the .nozzle,.and Fig. 4 is an inverted plan view of the same.

. Similar .letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings, re ferring to which l A is a tobacco-bag, of textileor other soft material, having the usual mouth a and drawstringb for contracting the mouth, and B is my novel nozzle as a whole. The said nozzle is preferably of metal and is made up of a lever-section' (J, a lever-section D, a transverse pintle E, pivotally connecting the said leversections together, and a coiled spring F for returning the lever-sections to and normally retaining said sections in their closed positions, the said spring being coiled about the pintle E and'having terminal arms 0 exerting constant pressure against the inner portions in Fig. 4:.

of the lever-sections O and D, as best shown The lever-sections C and D respectively, comprise a flat outer arm 03, which is normally inclined inwardly and is provided with a square upper edge e and a vertical base f. side flanges g extending inwardly at right angles from the Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed May 24,1905. Serial No. 261,982.

the bag-mouth is disposed in the groove formed tobacco in the bag is exhausted, the bag may Patented Nov. 28, 1905.

shown in Fig. 1that is to say, the wall of by the flanges k of the nozzle and is drawn taut about the'nozzle through the medium of the string a. With the nozzle applied as stated tobacco can only escape from the bag through the nozzle, and then only when the outer arms d of the lever-sections O and D are moved apart by inward pressure exerted against the inner arms m thereof. When the supply of be readily replaced with a full bag or else the .outer arms cZ-of the lever-sections C and D may be held apart by pressureapplied to the inner arms m and the original bag refilled with .tobacco through'the nozzle.

As will be readily gatheredfrom the fore going, the outer portion of each of the leversections of the nozzle is of an even width throughout itslength and is provided with a free end or edge whichis squarer. e. straight and disposed at right angles to the lengthof the nozzle. From this it follows that when the outer arms of the lever-sections are moved apart a large passage is afforded for the tobacco in discharging a bag or refilling the same.

It will also be gathered from the foregoing that the terminal armsof the coiledspring bear upwardly against the bases f of the arms (2, and hence are enabled to exert considerable leverage, with the result that the free upper ends or edges of the lever-sections are tightly held together, so as to preclude the casual escape of tobacco.

It will be further-noticed that my novel nozzle is compact and is well adapted to withstand the usage to which such devices are ordinarily subjected. v

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

"A. normally closed, discharge-nozzle for tobacco-bags and the like, comprising two lever-sections each of which has an outer, flat, inwardly-inclined arm the free edge of which is square, a vertical base at the inner end of.- said arm, side flanges extending inwardly at right angles from theouter arm and the vertical. base and tapered toward their upper ends, flanges extending laterally from the vertical base and the lower portions of the side flanges and an inner arm fixed with respect to the outer arm; the outer portion of one of said lever-sections being of a less width than the outer:- portion of the other so as to nor- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set mally rest within the latter portion, a pintle my hand in presence of two subscribing wit- 10 extending through the-lower portions-of the ness'es; side flanges of the lever-sections and pivotally 5 connecting said sections together, and a coiled Spring mounted on the pintle and having ter- Witnesses: minalo arms bearing upwardly against the P. J. KENNEDY, bases of the outer arms of the lever-sections. CHAs. W. Porn.

MAYER GRANAT. 

